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February 25, 2026Orthopedics

No Difference in Knee Pain Between Bone-patellar Tendon-bone and Hamstring Autograft at 2-year Follow-up

Nicholas Banfield Rebekah M. Kleinsmith Haley D. Puckett Stephen A. Doxey Marc A. Tompkins Gary B. Fetzer Bradley J. Nelson Brian P. Cunningham

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Key Points

The aim is to compare knee pain outcomes between BPTB and HT autografts after ACL reconstruction.
Comparison of knee pain scores between BPTB and HT autografts
Evaluation at 2-year follow-up
No significant difference in knee pain scores between the two graft types at follow-up

Implication

Finds no difference in knee pain between BPTB and HT autografts, suggesting similar outcomes for ACLR patients.

Abstract

ACLR with BPTB autograft was not found to be associated with worse knee pain scores compared to HT autograft at 2-year follow-up.

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Banfield et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a287010a974eb0d3c02624 https://doi.org/10.3928/01477447-20260202-01

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